Thursday, February 7, 2013

While the use of a base to launch drone strikes in Yemen has been reported in the past, it has been revealed that the exact location of the base was withheld by various news outlets at the request of the Obama administration.

The administration “cited concern that exposing the facility would undermine operations against an al-Qaeda affiliate regarded as the network’s most potent threat to the United States, as well as potentially damage counterterrorism collaboration with Saudi Arabia,” according to the Post.

Brennan, currently the White House counterterrorism adviser, is slated to face a Senate confirmation hearing as Obama’s nominee for director of the CIA.

The Times also revealed that they withheld the location of the base in Saudi Arabia, although they say it was held back “at the request of the C.I.A., but The Times decided to reveal it now because, according to the managing editor Dean Baquet, it was at the heart of this particular article and because examining Mr. Brennan’s role demanded it.”

Some have been highly critical of the decisions by the Times and the Post.

“The decision not to publish is a shameful one. The national security standard has to be very high, perhaps imminent danger,” said Dr. Jack Lule, a professor of journalism and communication at Lehigh University, according to the Guardian.

“The fact that we are even having a conversation about whether it was a national security issue should have sent alarm bells off to the editors,” Lule said.

“I think the real reason was that the administration did not want to embarrass the Saudis – and for the US news media to be complicit in that is craven,” he added.

The desire to avoid embarrassing the Saudis could indeed have been a significant motivation, according to al Jazeera.

“Any operation by US military or intelligence officials inside Saudi Arabia is politically and religiously sensitive,” al Jazeera reports. “AQAP [al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] and other groups have used the kingdom’s close relationship with the US to recruit new members, and to stir internal dissent against the Saudi government.”

Whatever the motivation, Lule contends that the Post and Times move to withhold the information from the American public shows that the media has become part of the government’s maintenance of the secrecy surrounding the drone program.

“We have two partners’ participation in the secrecy of the drone program: the government and the news media,” said Lule. “If we are looking to open it up to scrutiny, where do we go?”

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WHERE DO WE GO ? TRY THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S SUPER ELITE BOSSES THAT ARE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ? HA HA. !

FIRE THE FED & THE UN BOTH, AND WE WILL HAVE A MUCH MORE PEACEFUL WORLD; THEY ARE BOTH EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE COVERT ACTIVIES DIRECTED BY IMPERIALISM TO CONTROL & OWN THE WORLD THROUGH THE UN AND USED BY THE IMF, WORLD BANK, AND BIS,TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE ENDS, MOSTLY BY WARS OF OCCUPATION SINCE 1913, INCLUDING FINANCING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, WWI, WWII, the UN AND ALL THE "UN PEACE ACTIONS" EVER SINCE.

THEN go back to a constitutonal government and silver and gold money system to disown the fraud that has been accomplished by monetary control and a debt based "Legalized paper currency" backed by the thin air from which it has derived fraudulent control with which they now fraudulently charge all the world with their debts which the people of the world did not personally ask for, BUT HAVE BEEN TAXED TO PAY THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, JUST AS THOMAS JEFFERSON PREDICTED.

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